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# research16 quotes

RESEARCH

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

investingresearchOne Up on Wall Street

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

investingresearchOne Up on Wall Street

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards.

researchinvestingOne Up on Wall Street

I read the prospectuses. The details were all there.

researchhousing crisisVarious interviews

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape.

researchindividual investingInvestor letters

We're not smarter than everyone else. We just worked harder on this one trade.

housing traderesearchVarious interviews

I looked at the data and thought — this is going to end badly.

housing crisisresearchVarious interviews

The difference between investing and gambling is that in investing, you can do research. In gambling, the house always knows more than you. In markets, sometimes you can know more.

researchedgeInvestor Interview, 2012

The best investment analysis is the one where you do the work nobody else bothers to do. Read the footnotes. Call the competitors. Model the assumptions yourself.

researchfundamentalsColumbia Business School Lecture, 2010

I don't hire economists. I hire physicists and mathematicians. Economists know too many theories. Scientists know how to find what is actually true.

quantitativetalentMIT Talk, 2010

Index funds are fine. But if you put in the work to understand businesses, you can do better. Most people do not put in the work.

stock-pickingresearchYouTube Channel, 2020

Do your homework. That's all I ever ask. One hour per week per stock.

researchdisciplineJim Cramer's Real Money

Read the 10-K. Most investors never read a single SEC filing for stocks they own. That's insane.

Constitutional AI is the idea that you can train a model to follow principles, not just examples. You teach it values, not just tricks.

constitutional-aisafetyDario Amodei, research paper summary

We published our clinical research in peer-reviewed journals before we had a sales team. That was deliberate. In healthcare, credibility is the product.

researchcredibilityApril Koh, Y Combinator podcast, 2022

Everyone in this space says they have AI. We have peer-reviewed, published algorithms that predict treatment response. There's a difference between a marketing claim and a clinical tool.

airesearchApril Koh, MedCity News interview, 2023